Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond the problem of popular discontent lay deep and until now unresolvable policy differences that have divided China's two main factions for at least a decade. To be accurate, however, the commonly used terms radical and moderate are somewhat misleading. There is actually a good deal of common ground between the two groups -both are dedicated to Communism -and there are wide differences within each main camp. In general, the moderates could just as well be called pragmatists; they tend to be more flexible than the radicals, more concerned with practical results than the way the results...
...began last month. But Paley, some insiders believe, blamed Taylor. He invented the industry's new "family viewing hour"-the sanitized period between 8 and 9 p.m. in which programming is supposed to be free of sex and violence. To meet family-hour standards, CBS had to move popular shows like All in the Family into later time slots, where their ratings dropped; some newer shows (Doc, Switch, Spencer's Pilots) are mired in the bottom...
...police chief, Tonis was a popular figure among students, respected for his move to integrate the previously all-white force in 1962, and for his reluctance to obey President Pusey's order to clear protesters from University Hall...
Four days later it still galls us to pen the results of that encounter. We'll grant you that pro wrestling's been around a while. After all, you don't become America's most popular sport overnight. True, wrestling was the first program ever broadcast on television; true, both Winston Churchill and Plato were wrestlers, and with minds like that behind you, you can get into some pretty complicated legal technicalities. But all that we're asking is that when you're got rules, you apply them fairly...
...remained, as did the artists' meditations on primitive nature and the origins of consciousness. Reams of exegesis have been devoted to the numinous imagery of Mark Rothko's paintings, with their feathery bars and rectangles of hovering light. The vital text, however, was unwittingly furnished by a popular American preacher in the 1920s, when asked to describe his vision of God. "I see him," said the evangelist, "as a sort of oblong blur...